21 December 2018 German news weekly Der Spiegel publishes on Saturday a 23-page special report on how one of its award-winning reporters faked stories for years, dealing a blow to media credibility. Claas Relotius, 33, resigned after admitting to making up stories and...

The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is accused of sharing a misleading video of CNN’s Jim Acosta from the conspiracy-theory website Infowars. A White House intern tried to take the microphone from Acosta during a heated exchange between the...

By Caroline Haskins Nov 1 2018, 11:19pm A report released this week by the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative reveals that the removal of climate change information from the EPA website is set to be a long-term policy of the Trump administration (Read...

USA TODAY followed the rapid spread of a social media conspiracy theory about George Soros and migrants that grew from obscurity to the political mainstream. BY: Brad Heath, Matt Wynn and Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY 2:27 p.m. CDT Oct. 31, 2018 This is the life of...

By: TIM MAK With midterm elections just two weeks away, Facebook says it is ramping up its operations to fight disinformation. The social media behemoth has established a “war room” at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., where specialists try to detect...

So, if we accept the premise that media are influential in setting the public agenda, we also must understand the various devices media use to report—or more specifically, frame—the news. Media framing analysis goes beyond identifying which issues (and aspects of...

Hal P. Kirkwood Jr Purdue University – Main Campus, kirkwood@purdue.edu Abstract This article analyses and discusses concepts of business information, with a view to developing a unified theory of business information to help underpin professional information...

These documents were prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). CRS serves as nonpartisan shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. The CRS’s Mission and Vision Statements: The CRS operates solely at the behest of and under the...

By Dylan Matthews August 23, 2011 On Monday, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski announced the elimination of 83 regulations, including one of the agency’s most famous: the Fairness Doctrine. What is the Fairness Doctrine, and why is it gone?What it was: The Fairness...

Reuters Institute Fellowship Paper University of Oxford By Mikal Hem Trinity Term 2014 Sponsor: Fritt Ord Foundation Since the end of World War II many parts of the world have steadily grown in a more democratic direction. But these young democracies do not always...

September 21, 20185:00 AM ET Author: TIM MAK Russian social media agitators who pushed pro-gun messages in the United States sometimes copied the language of the National Rifle Association. And sometimes, the NRA copied them. What isn’t clear is whether...

Author: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) The “digital divide” – a term that refers to the gaps in access to information and communication technology (ICT) – threatens the ICT “have-nots”, whether...

Everything you need to know about the struggle to treat information on the internet the same—ISPs shouldn’t be able to block some sorts of data and prioritize others. AUTHOR: KLINT FINLEY NET NEUTRALITY IS the idea that internet service providers like Comcast...

This overview of the materials in this class discusses generally: Why we see things differently. Why we don’t like to be wrong. Why it is dangerous to question authority. Where we got the letter A. The morbidity of Puritan children’s books. How culture and...

Propaganda is used to support a narrative in the public’s debate about how the world works, what everything means, and how we should think and act. In order to create and disseminate propaganda, these are the steps a propagandist might take. Incidentally, I am using...

By Elizabeth Shogren / September 10, 2018 Park officials scrubbed all mentions of climate change from a key planning document for a New England national park after they were warned to avoid “sensitive language that may raise eyebrows” with the Trump...

ZEKE HAUSFATHER 05.10.2017 | 5:00pm Scientists have been making projections of future global warming using climate models of increasing complexity for the past four decades. These models, driven by atmospheric physics and biogeochemistry, play an important role...

Student use these worksheets to write research questions, find keywords, and construct search strategies using Boolean operators. Each worksheet prompts the student with a different research topic and asks them to create a search strategy to find as many relevant...

Please review the sources linked below and compose both an MLA and an APA citation for each. You can review MLA and APA citation styles using the library’s research guides. 1. A website: The EPA Eliminates a Strong Safeguard Against Industrial Air Pollution MLA:...

Find It Before you can use a book, you need to be able to find it in your library’s Online Book Catalog. Books tend to be broader and more general than articles, so when searching for books, think in terms of subjects rather than specific keywords. For instance, a...